Global psychologies: mental health and the global south
By: Fernando, Suman (Editor)
| Moodley, Roy (Editor)
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TextLanguage: English Publisher: London Palgrave Macmillan c2018Description: xxix, 329p.; 21cmISBN: 9781349958153Subject(s): Psychology | Differential and developmental psychology | Ethnopsychology and national psychology | Cross-cultural psychologyDDC classification: 155.8 FER/G Online resources: Publisher's URL Summary: This book critiques our reliance on Eurocentric knowledge in the education and training of psychology and psychiatry. Chapters explore the diversity of ‘constructions of the self’ in non-Western cultures, examining traditional psychologies from Africa, Asia, Australasia, and Pre-Columbian America. The authors discuss liberation psychologies and contemporary movements in healing and psychological therapy that draw on both Western and non-Western sources of knowledge.
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This book critiques our reliance on Eurocentric knowledge in the education and training of psychology and psychiatry. Chapters explore the diversity of ‘constructions of the self’ in non-Western cultures, examining traditional psychologies from Africa, Asia, Australasia, and Pre-Columbian America. The authors discuss liberation psychologies and contemporary movements in healing and psychological therapy that draw on both Western and non-Western sources of knowledge.